Moral

Question 1

Cohen

Answer 1

Fives stages: someone defined as threat to social norms, community members for depict the threat in simplicity ways to public, widespread public concern, authorities and policymakers, social change in the community
- mods and rockers

Question 2

Goode and Yehuda

Answer 2

suggests that moral panics created a folk devil, a statute of deviance that suggests the perpetrators of the deviant act are selfish and evil and we need to neutralize actions

Question 3

Hall

Answer 3

moral panics serve as a ideological function to introduce capitalist legislation that is supported by the masses and incase surveillance

Question 4

Thornton

Answer 4

‘just say no’ drugs for acid house and ecstasy campaign encourage youth to do drugs by showing that adult society disproved

Question 5

Furedi

Answer 5

moral panics arise when society fails to adapt to social change and feels a alias of control over powerful groups like the young. Concerns of older generation about the nature of society

Question 6

Cohen and Young

Answer 6

suggests moral panics arise because the consensual nature of journalism

- Moral panics make profit as they sell papers  Plays on people’s real fears

Question 7

Jewkes

Answer 7

argues the definition of deviance used by moral panic theorists is too broad. For example cannabis panic is not the same of that’s found paedophilia